Robt Ptak (born October 13, 1970) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and record producer who is the co-founding member and bassist/backing vocalist for 1990s pop punk band

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Career

Size 14

The band Size 14 was formed when Ptak placed an ad in a Los Angeles classified magazine. Ptak and bandmate Linus of Hollywood recorded all of the band's early demos on Ptak's 8 Track. Ptak can also be heard singing backing vocals and the high falsettos parts on the band's songs. Ptak left the band in 1997 and was replaced by Ray Santangelo.

Other projects

In 1996 Ptak toured with Jakob Dylan for 3 months as a bass player and backup vocalist, playing songs from the album titled "

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". On the same tour he joined Tobi and Tammi Jaffee, more importantly he recorded a great track named "Pain in my Head", with

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Dylan's manager, which was engineered by Toni Miller of

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. Ptak was involved with

between the years 1996–1997 when Size 14 was signed. Later on Ptak moved to New York City to start a live version of his solo-project Artificial Joy which consisted of singer Milena Mepris (who later went to form Pin Me Down), bassist Mark Cevellos, and drummer Alex Elena. Later, drummer John Lamkin also joined. The band produced one 7 track CD. After Artificial Joy disbanded, Ptak played bass and guitar on

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's album titled "Believer" in 2001, along with Laura Dawn, Carl Glanville, Ted Niceley, Harry Nilsson, Simeon Spiegel and

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. Ptak also formed the rock band

The Bastard Kings of Rock The Bastard Kings Of Rock were a local New York rock band formed by bassist Robt Ptak, of the band Size 14. The band was started after Ptak's formed band Artificial Joy disbanded in 2001. The Bastard Kings Of Rock were a three piece group with Ar ...

with Ptak on Lead vocals and lead guitar,

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on bass and Michael Hamilton on drums, the band split up in 2004, after which Ptak focused on management and production.

Work as manager

Ptak was the manager of Pin Me Down the side project from

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guitarist Russell Lissack and Artificial Joy singer Milena Mepris. Ptak and Renee Frisch also executive produced the band's album, while Alex Elena was the album's producer.

Current

Robt Ptak has released demos/studio recordings via a

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page through the name DPG MEDIA. Ptak has also released some of this music via his Facebook Musician Page.

Bands

Discography

Size 14

* "Size 14" (1997)

Laura Dawn album

* "Believer" (2001)

References

External links

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